Is it expensive to eat in a cafe in Colombia? What is the average check? Does it make sense to go to cafes and restaurants or eat better at the hotel?

Responds Ilya Izevlin, the company "Miracle"
The average bill in the restaurant is about 20 USD for lunch or dinner. At restaurants it is customary to leave a tip at the rate of 10% of the check. You can eat up to both in the hotel and in various cafes and restaurants, the cost will not differ much.
Responds information department of "Subtlety of Tourism"
In the capital of Colombia, Bogota, you can find cafes and restaurants for every taste and purse, with cuisine from different countries of the world (this is facilitated by the multinational composition of the population) - $ .However, tourists with great interest visit places where you can enjoy traditional Colombian dishes: "ahiko" - soup with chicken and vegetables, tortilla pancakes "arepas", "arros-kon-koko" - rice in coconut oil, "bandeha-pice" - a dish of ground beef, sausages, legumes, rice, bananas and avocados, stewed seafood "casuela de maricos" and many other dishes .Traditional drinks - coffee, hot chocolate, as well as local beer, rum, reed vodka "agauriende" and fruit water "refresco" .

As for the purchase of products, imported at the same price as ours, and local meat, milk, eggs and cereals are much cheaper. But the way we habitually eat bread - here it is almost not eaten.

If you eat in cafes and restaurants, it is worthwhile to distinguish between tourist places and institutions for local, where you can eat hearty and very tasty lunch for 1, 5 - 2 USD. For comparison, in any meat restaurant on Carrera, a complex dinner will cost 10 - 20 USD. And if you suddenly make friends with the local, they will show you "self-service cafeteria", where similar food will cost almost a penny.

October 31, 2014

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